Sentence examples for minor second from inspiring English sources
noun
An interval that is equivalent to one half step
- The minor second has a pitch ratio close to 18:17.
Out there in the ether a minor second would sound just as peaceful as a major third.
"Dissonant" in this system referred only to the minor second, an interval of two shrutis, and to its inversion (complementary interval), the major seventh (20 shrutis).
"The Love Below" spawned only a minor second hit, "Roses," a tossed-off bit of scatological fortune-cookie writing—"roses really smell like boo-boo".
There are passages in each where Feldman seems to be testing the listener's patience, seeing how long we can endure a repeated note or a dissonant minor second.
Christos Gevgelis's improvisatory lines made broad leaps or approached as close as a minor second to a drone sustained by the elder Gorgios Gevelis, making a pungent combination.
Minor, [plays piano] changes those around, [plays piano] a minor third on the bottom, major on top, major, [plays piano] minor.
"We've been beaten by the champions," said Mick McCarthy who, pressing every available button, changed formations and personnel mid-game but merely succeeded in giving Newcastle some minor second-half problems.
A minor ninth on E, in C minor?
So which came first, the sad minor third in music or the sad minor third in speech?
But what would happen if you constructed a triad with just a minor third on the bottom and then another minor third — two minor thirds?
